Today In World News:
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- An 18-month-old Palestinian baby has died after suffering from tear gas inhalation during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians nearly three months ago after. Israeli forces "shot tear gas into his home and room" in the occupied West Bank town of Aboud near Ramallah on May 19. Israeli jeeps blocked Palestinian ambulances from reaching Barghouti and medics had to go by foot to attend to and bring the child to a hospital in Ramallah.
- The Pentagon says U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have killed a total of 603 civilians since the air campaign against the Islamic State group was launched in 2014.
- President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 campaign after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Trump's then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attended the meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, two weeks after Trump won the Republican nomination.
- Republicans criticized U.S. President Donald Trump when he had said Russia's president, Putin, and him had discussed forming a cyber security unit. Republicans claimed that Moscow could not be trusted after its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
- U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday backtracked on his push for a cyber security unit with Russia, tweeting that he did not think it could happen, only hours after promoting it following his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information. This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton for in the waning days of the 2016 presidential election.
- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their "victory" over Islamic State after nearly nine months of urban warfare, bringing an end to jihadist rule in the city.
- The influential donor network tied to billionaire Charles Koch is taking aim at a longstanding Senate tradition that allows Democratic senators to block judicial nominees from their states, as conservatives race to seize on one-party control of Washington to rapidly reshape the federal judiciary.
- Single-payer healthcare has gained traction as more Democratic candidates have been willing to embrace the government-funded healthcare.
- A top Vatican official charged in his native Australia with historical sex crimes arrived in Sydney ahead of his first court appearance later this month.
- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson praised the courage of the Turkish people in defending democracy from an attempted coup almost exactly a year ago, although he made no mention of the widespread crackdown that has followed.
- North Korean state media have sharply criticized a recent practice bombing run by two U.S. B-1B bombers on the Korean peninsula, calling it a dangerous move raising the risk of nuclear war.
- Black homeowners struggle as US housing market recovers. The growing ranks of African-Americans who do not own their homes, is at a rate that was nearly 30 percentage points higher than that of whites in 2016.
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